Children Add Special Magic To Yw's Hanging Of The Greens

December 10, 1987|The Morning Call

Youngsters attending the annual Hanging of the Greens celebration Sunday at the Bethlehem YWCA gave their interpretationof the holidays.

Preschool students from the YW's nursery and day care center as well as others created glittering snowflakes, garlands and other decorations which they hung on the 12-foot Christmas tree in the main lobby.

Some 150 persons attended the afternoon program which included selections by the Chapter Two Sweet Adelines Quartet and the preschool children's choir of the YWCA. In addition to a short film, the story "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement Moore, was presented by Liza Holzinger of the Bethlehem area Public Library.

One of the highlights was a visit by Santa Claus (Emory Zimmers, professor of industrial engineering at Lehigh University.) Some of the youngsters were prepared for Santa. They brought along their Christmas lists. Others gave a suggestion or two. Santa asked them what Christmas means to them and reminded them to leave a few carrots for the reindeer as well as cookies for Santa.

To bring the old-fashioned Christmas observance to a close, those in attendance sang some of the traditional and modern carols, with Donna Hoffman at the piano.